[PW] Dragon and Princess

[FERGUSON Timothy]

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Bradley Scott
Sent: Monday, 30 July 2007 11:08
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Subject: Re: [PW] Dragon and Princess

> From: "Holly Campbell-Polivka" <holly at jonnyville.org>
......
>> I've got a stumper, and I'm hoping somebody on this list may
recognize the description. There aren't a whole lot of details, but here
is what I have. It is a small 
>> paperback picture book no more than 20 or 30 pages, and probably
less. In the first couple of pages, lots are drawn and a princess is
sent to be the offering for a
>> dragon. That's all I have! Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

> A similar lottery involving a princess and a dragon was a key plot
point of the 1981 movie "Dragonslayer".  There was a novelization by
Wayland Drew and -- perhaps 
> more to the point -- an illustrated juvenile "movie storybook" by
Larry Weinberg.  (OCLC record # 7197842).  The latter is described by
WorldCat as having 60 pages 
> rather than 20-30, though.

Dragonslayer steals this from Perseus and Ariadne, as I recall, so it
could be anything deriving from the same source.

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